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"It is important therefore that I clarify to the House that in the first instance there are significant monies within Anglo-Irish to take the strain of loan losses arising over the next three or four years, before State support is engaged." Brian Lenihan 15/01/09

Do these things really mean anything any more? The world is just so messed up, this morning I read about a professor/lecturer who was fired from his job in a British university for saying that women don't have penises. Apparently it's offensive to transgender people to state the obvious fact that women do not have a penis. Don't get me wrong, sexual violence is never acceptable, men have been raping people during wars since time began and unfortunately that will never stop. I'm not sure what these two people actually achieved or how giving them an award actually makes a damned bit of difference, it certainly won't help any of the men women or children who are being raped right now all over the world in wars. He's doing something practical, she's just getting an award for being raped and talking about it.

This year's Peace Prize goes to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist who has devoted his life to defending victims of sexual violence as a weapon of war. He is "the foremost, most unifying symbol of the struggle to end sexual violence in war and armed conflicts".

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi Kurdish human rights activist from Iraq. She is herself "a victim of war crimes. She has shown uncommon courage in recounting her own sufferings and speaking up on behalf of other victims".

The Laurel and Hardy thing is every other year. The award is basically folks voting to feel good about themselves. This was my favorite one:

She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."[2][3] In October 2012, she disowned Sirleaf, accusing her of nepotism and doing little for the very poor.

And when the Yasidis were being hunted down and killed or raped the saviour of the nation Jeremy Corbin MP stood up in the UK parliament and demanded that nothing be done to save them. The Stop the War coalition which he was closely associated with went one further and said that their prediciament was being exaggerated.

"What Michael Collins accepted in '22,De Valera accepted in'27 and Gerry Adams accepted in '98.Sooner or later they all come around to accepting the Treaty"